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How To: Calculate percentage change in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 267th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to calculate percentage change using a simple universal formula: (End Value)/Beg Value)/Beg Value = Percentage Change.
How To: Link tasks in Microsoft Project 2007
In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to link tasks in Microsoft Project 2007. There are four ways to link a task. Finish to start is the default, then you have start to start, finish to finish and start to finish. Here you will see how to link up two tasks and what is the dependency between them. There are various methods of creating dependency between two tasks. One method is to select the two tasks and click on the ‚Äòlink tasks‚Äô button on the tool bar or you can go to the ‚...
How To: Version contacts between MS Outlook and Cosential
In this Software video tutorial you will learn how to version contacts between MS Outlook and Cosential. Download and install a simple application called ‘ethnosinstaller’. On the first run, Cosential will import all your contacts from Outlook. On the first run, login with your account details and then you can either create a new folder or use an existing folder. You can also download an existing task list or create a new one. Next step is to update your contacts. Click on ‘update’ on...
How To: Use basic functions in Excel (AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN/MAX)
This video shows us how to use the following functions in Excel: average, count, counta, min, max, and sum. First, start off by create a set of numbers to work with. After that, click on an empty cell that you want to use for the functions. To do an average, click on the functions button on the top right corner of the menu bar, you'll see a list of all the functions that are available. Select average, and then highlight all the numbers that you want to find the average of. Repeat the exact sa...
How To: Use a keyboard shortcut to create a chart in Excel 07
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 2nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create charts via keyboard shortcut as well as how to create dynamic charts with cell references.
How To: Create simple formulas with cell references in Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the very first installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to build your spreadsheet smartly, so it updates automatically by creating formulas with cell references!
How To: Calculate probabilities with Excel's NORMDIST function
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 22nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the NORMDIST function to calculate probabilities for a population with a normal (bell) distribution! You even get to see the four types of situations that you most commonly encounter -- plus visual pictures of each situation...
How To: Calculate probabilities with Excel's BINOMDIST feature
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 21st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the BINOMDIST function to calculate probabilities for a binomial experiment - binomial distribution!
How To: Randomly generate words in an Excel spreadsheet
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 19th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the CHOOSE and RANDBETWEEN functions to randomly generate words.
How To: Randomly generate letters in an Excel spreadsheet
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 18th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the ROW, CHAR and RANDBETWEEN functions to randomly generate letters. See also how to randomly create letter sequences.
How To: Randomly generate whole numbers in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 17th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the RANDBETWEEN function to randomly generate whole numbers as well as how to randomly assign numbers to employees.
How To: Add & count above a specified limit in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 15th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMIF and COUNTIF functions to add and count above some limit.
How To: Extract characters without leading zeroes in MS Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 331st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract individual characters without extracting the leading zeroes through use of the MID, VALUE and COLUMNS functions.
How To: Make an Excel Gantt chart that highlights workdays
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 327th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a Gantt Chart that will include highlight the workdays one color and weekends and holidays another color.
How To: Use Excel's VLOOKUP function without a first column
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 328th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use VLOOKUP when you do not have a first column to use for lookup.
How To: Deal with a circular reference warning in MS Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 214th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to deal with a circular reference warning in a formula.
How To: Create a dynamic date list for a DV dropdown in Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 324th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a dynamic list of dates for a data validation drop-down list.
How To: Extrapolate given daily fixed costs in MS Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 325th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a formula that takes a fixed daily cost and calculates the monthly total for months with different number of days.
How To: Create a hyperlink from one Excel sheet to another
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 326th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create a hyperlink from one sheet to another in the same workbook.
How To: Sum lookup items in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 320th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the SUMPRODUCT & SUMIF functions together to look up multiple items and add them in one cell.
How To: Do a reverse-order VLOOKUP with Excel's INDEX & MATCH
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 319th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to run a VLOOKUP in reverse order using the INDEX & MATCH functions and custom number formatting.
How To: Extract substrings with Microsoft Excel's MID function
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 317th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract data (specifically, a substring from string) using the MID Function.
How To: Extract data with the MID function in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 318th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to extract data with the MID function and use VLOOKUP to retrieve a date.
How To: Match text substrings with an array formula in Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 321st installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to match text substrings with an array formula that uses the AND, ISNUMBER and SEARCH functions.
How To: Extract data with an AND/NOT advanced filter in Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 322nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to create an advanced filter to extract with AND and NOT criteria.
How To: Run a partial text lookup in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 323rd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to run a partial text lookup query using a VLOOKUP function with wild card criteria.
How To: Determine whether a given item in a list in MS Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 119th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to determine if a particular item is in a list of items using two formulas: a ISNUMBER & MATCH function formula & a COUNTIF function formula.
How To: Convert TRUE & FALSE values to 1 & 0 in MS Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 314th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn four different methods for converting TRUE and FALSE values to 1 and 0 (zeroes).
How To: Work with array formulas in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 313th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to get started using array formulas in your Excel projects.
How To: Extract dates and times from a database field in Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 312th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the DATE, MID, LEFT and TIME functions to extract dates and times from a database field that stores dates and times as a text string.
How To: Verify an ID prefix in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 311th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn three different methods for determing whether a Produt ID prefix matches a second specified prefix.
How To: Use Excel's DSUM & DMAX functions with date criteria
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 310th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the DSUM and DMAX with date criteria.
How To: Use partial text matching in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 309th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to check to see if an item in first list is second another list, even if there is text before or after the item using the LOOKUP, SEARCH and ISNUMBER functions.
How To: Invert a range of values in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 307th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX, ROWS, COLUMNS, LARGE, SMALL functions to create 4 different formulas that will invert a range of values.
How To: Concatenate with criteria in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 316th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to count & list unique values as well as how to concatenate a range of values with a separator.
How To: Randomly select names without repeats in MS Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 302nd installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the INDEX & MRAND functions to randomly select names without repeats.
How To: Add a secondary axis to a chart in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 304th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add a secondary axis to a chart so that you have axes on the left and right.
How To: Use the MCONCAT function in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 306th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use MCONCAT & LOOKUP functions to lookup values from a table and add results. Also see a formula that uses exponents instead of the MCONCAT concatenation function to look up and sum table values.
How To: Sum only certain columns in Microsoft Excel
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 297th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to select varying columns for summing (adding).
How To: Conditionally format an Excel column-row intersection
New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 296th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add conditional formatting to a row, a column and the intersection of the two with three different colors.